Khmer Rouge

Sometimes, the Angkar would catch him sneaking out to collect the food at night and beat him up in front of other children.

Heuveline and Poch's conclusion understates the difference between pre-Khmer Rouge marriage and marriage arranged by the Angkar. As one interviewee said, marriages in Democratic Kampuchea "had nothing to do with Cambodian tradition." (29)

Angkar became the rallying cry, the central organizing concept, and the justification for a new Democratic Kampuchea.

Collective loyalty to the 'Angkar' was emphasised and family bonds were discouraged.

In 1975, during the sudden forced evacuation of the population to different parts of the country by Angkar, my mother's family met a Khmer Rouge cadre.

Other local premieres include Angkar, a documentary by French-Cambodian director Neary Adeline Hay about her father's return to Cambodia for the first time since the Khmer Rouge.

Premiering at the International Film Festival Rotterdam last week, Angkar follows Khonsaly Hay as he travels around Phnom Penh seeking what remains of the house and pharmacy he was forced to leave behind during the Khmer Rouge-instigated mass exodus from the city on April 17, 1975.

The performance in question, created as part of the Pka Sla Krom Angkar project, is a dance that tells the true stories of victims of forced marriage.

It is part of Phka Sla Krom Angkar, a judicial reparations project focusing on forced marriages and sexual violence in Democratic Kampuchea.